On November 17, 2010, Governor Chris Gregoire issued executive order 10-06 suspending rule development and adoption, effective immediately and running through December 31, 2011.  Under the order, all activity on "non-critical" rules is immediately suspended.  Rulemaking is allowed to continue if the certain exemption criteria is meet.

The department has currently placed a temporary suspension on all rulemaking activities.  During the next month, all open rules will be reviewed to determine which rules are "non-critical" and which ones meet the exemption criteria.


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Draft Rules / Proposed Planning Areas:

•  Draft Bed Need Rules (PDF, 198 KB)
•  Excel Mock-up (Excel, 194 KB)

•  DOH Proposed HPAs (Excel, 162 KB)
•  Acute Care Patient Admit data 2008 (Excel, 4.95 MB)

•  Updated - Proposed Hospital Planning Area (HPA) Comments (PDF, 815 KB)
     (Two additional HPA comments submitted in October 2010)


Meeting Notes:

•  October 22, 2010 Workshop # 8 (PDF, 56 KB)

•  August 31, 2010 Workshop # 8 (PDF, 66 KB)
•  May 25, 2010 Workshop # 7 A (PDF, 28 KB)
•  May 25, 2010 Workshop # 7 B (PDF, 25 KB)
•  April 22, 2010 Workshop # 6 (PDF, 66 KB)
•  March 11, 2010 Workshop # 5 (PDF, 65 KB)
•  January 11, 2010 Workshop # 4 (PDF, 58 KB)
•  December 17, 2009 Workshop # 3 (PDF, 54KB)
•  November 13, 2009 Workshop # 2 (PDF, 27KB)
•  November 6, 2009 sub-workgroup (PDF, 24KB)
•  October 12, 2009 Workshop # 1 (PDF, 55KB)


Rule Activities:

• CR-101 filed with the Office of the Code Reviser on August 4, 2009.  (PDF, 34 KB)